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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi folks - OP here.

Reminder, this is a question is about protecting children's safety while in elementary school.

I would think that there is a case to be made for 2-3 armed police officers on school grounds during the core school day -- one surveilling in the parking lot, 2-3 around the recess area surveilling for any would-be shooters

Every Jewish preschool in the area, for instance, seems to have 1-2 armed County police officers by the front door during school hours.  Why can't the same be offered for our elementary schools, which have 5-15x the number of students as these preschools?  (Serious question - what would it take for this to be possible)? [/quote]

Those police are working on secondary employment, paid by the preschools.  There is a 200+ officer shortage right now.  They don't even have enough police to manage traffic issues at schools much less assign anyone full time to elementary schools.

Also, the political leadership trends anti-police, and some (Elrich, Jawando, Sayles, Mink) do NOT want police at schools period.[/quote]

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